faucetman:
Rapture does not appear in the Bible and is a heresy. Nobody believed or proposed that nonsense until the 19th century. So lets get your facts straight.
The word Trinity is in fact not in the Bible, the Doctrine of the Trinity is implcit in the Sacred Scriptures and is pointed to, but it was not formally defined until the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. And it does have to do with what is in the Bible or not because you are imposing your protesant notion of priesthood of all belivers sola scriptura on the scriptures which itself is nonsense.
The arrogance of many American protestants to think that Christiantity, which grew up in a Roman-Greek Culture looked like modern American Fundalmentalist-evangelical protesantism is a joke.
The Church was termed Catholic well before the NT canon was definitively defined and that is a “FACT” which has been pointed out many times here [I have done it myself so many times that My head spins]. And that NT canon was defined by, shhhhhh, sorry to tell you, but the Catholic Church.
“The arrogance of many American protestants to think that Christiantity, which grew up in a Roman-Greek Culture looked like modern American Fundalmentalist-evangelical protesantism is a joke.”
When -everybody- knows it really looked more like a feudal monarchy, complete with castles, swiss guards, a body of law, lawyers to interpret that law, and a structural hierarchy of lesser offices, and diplomats to governments. The only reason they dont have hereditary sucession is that they don’t believe in marriage.
Those guys in the temple Christ busted up were pikers compared to the Roman church.